#  The Canadian Model of Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities (Fall 2017) 

 



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##  October 20, 2017

##  About the Conference

 Canadian society has several aspects that make study of it crucial to understanding global challenges in the twenty-first century. These include migration issues, religious diversity, and the struggle of Aboriginal peoples and minority nations in quest for recognition. The aim of this conference is to analyze the Canadian experience through all its diversity, and to emphasize the decisive contributions of Canadian scholars in these different fields.

##  Conveners

- Paul May, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Political Science, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
- Michèle Lamont, Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

 *All workshop panels will be held in Room 105, Williams James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge*

###  9:00-9:15 Welcome Address

 **Michèle Lamont**, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs  
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Harvard University

###  9:15-10:15 Keynote Session

 *Canadian Exceptionalism? A Model for 21st Century Democracies*  
**Seyla Benhabib**, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University  
Presider: **Paul May**, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

###  10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

###  10:30-12:00 Panel I: National Minorities

 *Hypocrisy 150: Indigenous-Settler Relations, Group Positioning, and Prospects for Reconciliation at Canada’s Sesquicentennial*  
**Jeffrey Denis**, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, McMaster University

 *Re-thinking How We Think about Immigration: Reasons Why We’re Great, Reasons Why We’re Not*  
**Rima Wilkes**, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia

 *The Value of Diversity in Advanced Liberal Democracies: A World in Need of Renewed Markers*  
**Alain-G Gagnon**, Professor, Department of Political Science, Director of Canada Research Chair in the Study of Canada and Quebec, Université du Québec à Montréal

 Chair and discussant: **Jane Jenson**, Professor, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal / Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Successful Societies Program

###  12:00-1:00 Lunch

###  1:00-2:30 Panel 2: Citizenship

 *The Bureaucracy of the Canadian Model*    
**Mireille Paquet**, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University / Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University

 *Changing Canada’s Citizenship Regime. Federalism and Immigration*   
**Jane Jenson**,Professor, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal / Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Successful Societies Program

 *Strategic Citizenship, Eh? An Inquiry into the Motivations for Naturalization*   
**Elke Winter**, Associate Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa

 Chair and discussant: **Peggy Levitt**, Chair of Sociology at Wellesley College and Co-Director of the Politics and Social Change Workshop, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

###  2:30-2:45 Coffee Break

###  2:45-4:15 Panel 3: Public Opinion

 *Visible Minority Canadians and Feelings of Belonging: Exploring Provincial Variations*  
**Antoine Bilodeau**, Professor, Department of Politial Science, Concordia University  
**Luc Turgeon**, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa

 *The Near Death of Canadian Multiculturalism*  
**Will Kymlicka**, Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University

 *The End of Multiculturalism? An Analysis of Public Discourses on Multiculturalism in Canada and in Great Britain*  
**Paul May**, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

 Chair and discussant: **Michèle Lamont**, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affair, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Harvard University

###  4:30-6:00 Panel 4: Religion

 *The Fate of Symbols: Religion, Secularism, and Patrimoine in Québec*   
**Geneviève Zubrzycki**, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan

 *A Religion like No Other: Islam and the Limits of Multiculturalism in Canada*  
**Phil Triadafilopoulos**, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

 *Multiculturalism, Religion and Secularism*   
**Tariq Modood**, Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol / Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship

 Chair and discussant: **Jytte Klausen**, Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis University, Fellow at The Wilson Center in Washington D.C., and Affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University



 



 

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